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TIL Volkswagen was sued by Czechoslovakian car maker Tatra before WWII because the original Beetle was so similar to the Tatra T97. After Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938 the lawsuit was cancelled by the Nazis

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xV7ok TIL, percussive maintenance is when you pound your fist on something to get it to work. The astronauts on Apollo 12 successfully did it when one of the cameras stopped working.
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b9R7a TIL about Andrew Jackson's assassination attempt. After Lawrence's pistols misfired, Jackson credited divine providence with intervening on his behalf. A century later, both pistols were tested and fired at the first shot. The odds that both would misfire was estimated to be about 1 in 125,000.
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